The Glass Half Full

 

I should title this fishing report, "The Bay Half Full". The funny thing is that yesterday I expected today's report to be titled, "The Bay Half Empty". If these metaphors are just too deep for you, I'll lay it out in plain english. There was no water in the Bay for most of this morning. I had been watching the weather forecasts for a few days prior to this trip and measuring it against the tide charts. The combination of high winds out of the North East (flushes water out of the Bay) and a negative low tide didn't have me excited, to say the least. I called both my charters for today yesterday afternoon and expressed my concerns for today's trips. One group decided to reschedule while the other group, Mike, Mike, Mike, and Don said that today would be their only chance to go and one of the Mikes said that we should just go for it and make the best of the weather situation we have. I'm glad we did. Today ended up being a "Glass Half Full" day as opposed to it's negative counterpart.

 

I got bait pretty easily less than 1/10 of a mile from the boat ramp and then went to pick up Mike, Mike, Mike, and Don. When we left the ramp, the Bay was as I expected. Low water, high winds, and choppy. 90% of the spots I like to fish were completely dry or inaccessible due to the low water. We started the day out by  fishing deep cuts near the mouths of a nearby river and managed a few small snook. After that we headed over to some docks that had some sailboats on them and pitched baits under the sailboats. We managed one hook up on a huge fish but ended up getting broke off. From there I tried to work my way up the river only to find that all of my other spots in there were inaccessible. We decided to brave the choppy water and head out to the outside bar on the South shore of Tampa Bay to try our hand at some trout. They were there for sure. Our first bite at this spot was also our biggest trout of the day at almost 20". We proceeded to catch another 20 or so trout and kept one more for dinner.

 

It's just a reminder to me that you can't catch fish if you don't go fishing. I'm glad that Mike saw the glass half full and pulled the trigger on a good fishing trip. It wasn't as good as it could have been had we had ideal conditions but we caught almost 30 fish today so I'll Take it.

 

Thanks for going fishing with me guys! I had a great time meeting you.

 

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